Little-Acorn
Gold Member
Pollsters have a habit of asking their subjects, "Do you like policies that will accept and pay for pre-existing conditions. Yes or No?"
Naturally lots of people say, Yes.
And the pollsters take these results and use them to demand that government mandate such policies. After all, look how many people said they like them!
But if they asked something a little closer to reality, such as "Would you be willing to accept an increase in your premiums of $700/month to get a policy that covers pre-existing conditions, Yes or No?" (or whatever the additional cost would be), most of those same people would reply No.
What would the pollsters then say once those results are in?
That's why the pollsters never ask about the cost of what they are trying to make government force on people.
They merely assume government would also force people who earn more, to give up a lot more money to pay, not only for their own mandatory policies, but also the mandatory policies of those who earn less. If any civilian agency did this, and forced everyone to comply, it would be plain theft. Is it any difference when govt does it?
Such forcing is the biggest thing that killed Obamacare, since eventually people found out the hard way, what the real cost was.
Trump was heard to say he liked policies that were required to pay for people's pre-existing conditions. When will he get around to calculating how much more those policies cost for every person, and making decisions on that basis?
Naturally lots of people say, Yes.
And the pollsters take these results and use them to demand that government mandate such policies. After all, look how many people said they like them!
But if they asked something a little closer to reality, such as "Would you be willing to accept an increase in your premiums of $700/month to get a policy that covers pre-existing conditions, Yes or No?" (or whatever the additional cost would be), most of those same people would reply No.
What would the pollsters then say once those results are in?
That's why the pollsters never ask about the cost of what they are trying to make government force on people.
They merely assume government would also force people who earn more, to give up a lot more money to pay, not only for their own mandatory policies, but also the mandatory policies of those who earn less. If any civilian agency did this, and forced everyone to comply, it would be plain theft. Is it any difference when govt does it?
Such forcing is the biggest thing that killed Obamacare, since eventually people found out the hard way, what the real cost was.
Trump was heard to say he liked policies that were required to pay for people's pre-existing conditions. When will he get around to calculating how much more those policies cost for every person, and making decisions on that basis?